tion. My acute anxiety ran like a melodious plaint
through the harmonious life of my foreign comrades. A secret voice,
har3ly audible, kept murmuring within me: `And if you could describe
this anguish wouldn't it, too, contribute to the beauty of your
book?'
Occasionally some officer would take me with him to Ypres. With
an elderly Colonel in the Medical Corps I went to see my friend,
Dr. James, in Maple Copse, a little wood in the front line. At
the entrance to the town a violent bombardment stopped us in the
midst of a military transport which was blocking the road. The
shells came closer. Around us red explosions blew bits of machines,
men and horses into the air. For the first time I knew the feeling
of fear that twists your entrails and contorts your face. The Colonel,
seeing me grow pale, offered his flask:
`Drink,' he said. `Dr. Johnson said that brandy is the stuff from
which heroes are made.'
He was right. A few swallows of good cognac brought back my natural
optimism and the bombardment became a spectacle. I have remembered
this receipt and made use of it successfully through two wars.
Despite the way the days dragged, the weeks and months passed fast
enough. General Furse had replaced General Thesiger who had been
killed at Loos. Furse was what the men called a strafer. As soon
as he arrived in a quiet sector he would order bombardments and
attacks and provoke the enemy to reply. Ridel had left us, summoned
back to the artillery. With Georges Richet, who had replaced him,
I translated a very good English book on the war, The First Hundred
Thousand, by Ian Hay who, under the name of Major Beith, was one
of our officers. Nelson accepted our translation and published
it. Another of our officers was Winston Churchill, a lieutenant-colonel
in command of one of our battalions, but I barely saw him at that
time. When we left the Ypres sector we were sent to recuperate
at Outersteene in the rear of Bailleul. There happily I found a
true French village living and working as in time of peace. And
I formed a real friendship with the beautiful and sensible daughters
of the local tavern keeper.
During this period of recuperation I became better acquainted with
my Scotsmen. I had a chance to visit all the regiments, with their
diverse tartans: the Gordon Highlanders, the Seaforth Highlanders,
Argyll, Black Watch, Camerons. Everywhere I picked up types and
anecdotes which were to prove useful for the book I was dreaming
about. I saw

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During this period of recuperation I became better acquainted with
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